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3 unusual facts about Backpack


Backpack

The internal frame backpack is a recent innovation, invented in 1967 by Greg Lowe, who went on to found Lowe Alpine and Lowepro, companies specializing in backpacks and other forms of carrying bags for various equipment.

Osprey body armour

These accessories are mounted using the PALS tape and can also be fitted to any other equipment with this arrangement, such as the issued daysac.

Royal Marines Reserve

Fortunately he managed to cushion the majority of the blast with his Bergen whilst his body armour stopped further shrapnel, this left him with only minor injuries and his fellow Marines unharmed.


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American Discovery Trail

The first hikers to walk the entire trail, Joyce and Pete Cottrell, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, were the first to backpack the entire official route of the American Discovery Trail, but they hiked segments out of sequence over two calendar years, finishing in 2003.

Arhuaca mochila

In 2006, the backpack was nominated as the Arhuaco cultural symbol of Colombia in the contest organized by the magazine Semana.

Bill Delano

After traveling to North-eastern Brazil this past Spring to participate in a Non-Profit Documentary Project, which he funded by producing/hosting his first travelogue for Current.TV, he landed a position creating a new Backpack Journalism show called “Not Your Average Travel Guide”.

Chameleon Twist 2

Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred, and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit (closely resembling Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky.

Escape set

1939: Hans Hass developed from the escape set a type of rebreather with its bag on his back and two breathing tubes but no backpack box.

Matthew Stocke

Stocke's voice can be heard on the original cast recordings for Giant, The Wedding Singer, The Boy from Oz, and The Full Monty, plus The Dirty Sock Funtime Band's debut album "The Search and Rescue of Genius Backpack" by Create-A-Play and BC/EFA's "Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure" Volumes 3, 5, & 8.

Osprey Packs

The world's first blind mountain climber to summit Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, used an Osprey backpack, the Aether 60, and is pictured with it on the cover of Time Magazine's June 18th, 2001 issue.

Peter Coffee

Peter is the father of three sons and is active as a youth soccer referee, Boy Scout backpack leader, church choir member, and coordinator of his church's food bank program.

Seth Fisher

Becker and Mayer publishers posthumously released a project titled Backpack Alarm, written by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone and featuring illustrations by Fisher.

The Smoggies

The Suntots find a lost Kiwi, and the Smoggies kidnap it and Sport because there's a map home in its backpack.

Uglydolls

On her first day of school in 2009, Sasha Obama, U.S. President Barack Obama's daughter, wore a Babo's Bird keychain on her backpack.


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